The benefits of the Structured Electronics Design approach are:

Structured Electronics Design has been developed at the TU Delft (The Netherlands) since the eighties of the last century. Since then, many PhD candidates have developed well-defined design methods for amplifiers, harmonic oscillators, first-order oscillators, voltage and current references, transmitters, receivers, etc.

In this seminar Anton Montagne will elucidate and illustrate the structured approach to the design of negative feedback amplifiers, in both PCA and in CMOS technology. These seminars are compressed versions of the TU Delft courses EE3C11 and EE4109. These seminars will be hosted at UH Manoa in Holmes Hall Room 389, May 1-5 from 10am-11am and 2pm - 3pm. More information about the topics covered during the seminar can be found on the Series website. If you intend to participate please fill out this RSVP form. UH Manoa Students can receive a maximum of 1 Credit Hour for seminar credit for attending one lecture.

Anton Montagne (Leiden, 1953) studied electrical engineering at the The Hague Institute for Applied Sciences and at the Delft University of Technology where he received his master’s degree in 1984. In 1983 he joined

Philips Semiconductors in Nijmegen where he designed analog integrated circuits for audio and video applications. At Philips, he also set up training courses on analog electronics. In 1986 he cofounded the product development company Product Partners where he carried out many analog designs in the field of instrumentation. In 1989, together with Catena Microelectronics, Delft University of Technology, and the Institute of Microelectronics in Stuttgart, he cooperated in the development of an intensive training course, covering many issues of analog information processing. Since 1997 he works as an independent consultant, trainer, and designer in the field of analog electronics. During the past 35 years, he carried out many training courses on analog electronics in Europe. Since 2019 he, together with Cris Verhoeven, develops new educational methods and material and teaches Structured Electronics Design at the TU Delft.

Anton Montagne is the inventor of several patents in the fields of IC technology, MEMS technology, sensor technology and high-stability X-tal oscillators. He is the author of the book Structured Electronics Design, and developed SLiCAP a Symbolic Linear Circuit Analysis Program, that supports the advocated design method.

Charles White, (Louisville, 1988) Electrical Engineer Ph.D student at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. He earned his Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. As a graduate student, he worked as a research assistant for Professor Gary Varner and collaborated with Nalu Scientific, where he designed voltage amplifiers, trans-impedance amplifiers, and timing generators. He took days and weeks iteratively testing all combinations to come to a solution. That iterative design flow changed shortly after finding Structured Electronics Design (SED), the SED approach begins at the application level and optimizes at each point down to the transistor level, which reduces iterative design and maximizes optimization. He was first introduced to SED through Cris Verhoevens’ text and the MOOC Dr. Verhoeven offers through the University of Technology in Delft. During the Summer of 2022, he started taking SED with Anton Montagne over the span of 9 months. Presently, he is designing a vertex detector that will become a candidate solution for Belle II’s vertex detector in their particle collider experiments.